Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, sentence 119
There have been great changes since we were children together; everything is different, both inwardly and outwardly.
Who acts: we, everything · What happens: have, be · To what, where: great changes
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, everything), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 have | expl |
| 2 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 changes | cop |
| 4 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 changes | amod |
| 5 | changes | change | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 have | obj |
| 6 | since | since | ADP | _ | 9 children | case |
| 7 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 children | nsubj |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 children | cop |
| 9 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 have | obl |
| 10 | together | together | ADV | _ | 2 have | advmod |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 different | punct |
| 12 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 14 different | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 different | cop |
| 14 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 have | parataxis |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 inwardly | punct |
| 16 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 inwardly | advmod |
| 17 | inwardly | inwardly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 different | conj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 outwardly | cc |
| 19 | outwardly | outwardly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 different | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | there | together property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is a | participle | great changes | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | is | past | we | since children | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is | present | everything | different property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | be | everything not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 6 | be | everything not said here | tree rules |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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